Class warfare : inside the fight to fix America's schools / Steven Brill.
By: Brill, Steven.
Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012, c2011Edition: 1st Simon & Schuster pbk ed.Description: xii, 478 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9781451612011 (pbk.).Subject(s): Public schools -- United States | School improvement programs -- United States | Education and state -- United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate. In it the author takes a look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children, and points the way to reversing that failure.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | LA217.2 .B77 2012 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011911 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [443]-449) and index.
This work looks at why many of America's schools are failing and relates how parents, activists, and education reformers are joining together to fix a system that works for adults but consistently fails the children it is meant to educate. In it the author takes a look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children, and points the way to reversing that failure.